Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); angel crowning the Virgin; two angels holding candlesticks; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Christ seated on left arm.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; angel holding the Sun and the Moon.
Pointed trefoils in the gables. Medallions enclosing quatrefoils with protruding cones in the spandrels.

Calkins 1968: French, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: France (Paris), 1350-1360.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Object Condition
Missing: candles (replaced); part of the lower border of the left wing, including the left foot of the Virgin (replaced).
Restored left arm of crowning angel. Broken around the hinges and along the legs of Christ.

Comments
Bronze rings for hanging in the upper part.

Provenance
Bought from Jacques Seligmann in 1923 by Henry Walters; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
R. G. Calkins, A Medieval Treasury: An Exhibition of Medieval Art from the Third to the Sixteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, White Museum of Art, Cornell University and M. W. Proctor Institute, Utica, 1968, no. 76.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 298.

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